CharadeMelissa Hotchkiss

posted Dec 4, 2007

I’m thinking of Cary Grant in the shower with his
clothes on
And Audrey Hepburn, but then I remember, there is another
Audrey, another famous Audrey but what I really mean
Or really think, there is another famous Hepburn
My mind switched the first and last so it’s not
About first and last, but the relationship between the two

You have to work hard for only one of your names to mean something
Like Madonna, or Sade, or Clinton and what are some others...
When you say Washington (even) it could depend on the context
The mind doesn’t bend, only decide and compartmentalize even if
we imagine an
openness or
expanse
Structure, even a lack of, represents organization

What am I saying?
I’m saying the person next to me on the #6 subway eating a smelly
salami sandwich at 9:48am
is RUDE
I’m saying you shouldn’t eat stinky food in public moving
places
I’m saying the person on the other side of me from Philadelphia
(in town for just two
days) wouldn’t necessarily know
where 65th and First belongs in relation to 59th and Lex

Also, I am saying my first name without
my last, or my last name without my first, can
just be
anybody, not somebody
Doesn’t everybody want to be somebody?